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Alexander James
STAX = BAD
Bentley Jackson
why the FUCK do people think these shitty needle anime feet look good
Isaac Howard
What listen you on foneheads user
Tyler Long
Redpill on STAX: STAX is an old Jap company with outdated tech that was considered high end back in the 1960s and 1970s but sounds like ass by today's standards, so they went nearly bankrupt. They were purchased by a Chinese company for just a million dollars who decided to market STAX to the audiophool "more expensive is better" demographic who buys those crappy $3000 vinyl players, they shill heavily on HeadFi and here on /hpg/, plus they pay Zeos to shill their crap just like Fostex does.
>In December 2011, Chinese loudspeaker manufacturer Edifier announced the acquisition of 100% equity in Stax
Oratory has measured the highest end STAX, the SR-009S.
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It's worse than the HD600. HD600 scored 92 and SR-009S scored 76.
In a separate study:
>The very highest end STAX ($4000 SR-009) was rated lower in blind tests than a $200 K701
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Even best Stax headphones sound objectively worse than mid-fi. This is why they don't demo them in store, they rely on the internet to create a sense of mystique around STAX and shill it as the endgame because its expensive, Asian, rare and obscure. In reality its no bass sounding garbage, with shrill highs that appeal only to near-deaf boomers. They have relatively high distortion, way higher than high end planars. And what they say is true, they have no soundstage.
To add insult to overpriced injury, they have shitty plastic build quality that you would expect on cheap chinkshit headphones:
Jackson Scott
dazed and confused - led zeppelin was my cherry popper for stax
was like i had a bass playing right next to me
Angel Collins
Wow I'm usually not that critical of bad proportions but this guy has a really fucked up idea of how perspective works. The proportions taken in the picture by both feet that are at different distances looks like the sort of dramatic perspective conjured by wide angle lenses. But I don't see the distortion that wide angle lenses should produce, which makes this look extra unnatural.
Jonathan Miller
BASED
Christopher Collins
and BLACKPILLED
Chase Scott
BASED AND OBJECTIVEPILLED